In space, most orbiting objects will have circular- or elliptical-shaped orbits. But now, almost 30 years of observations has revealed that a star in the center of our galaxy orbits the supermassive ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope sweeps across ...

IC 418, designated the Spirograph Nebula, is characterized by double shells of gas hosting irregular clumps distributed along various ellipses, located approximately 2,500 light-years away and ...